Clothes-drier



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOSEEYJOHNSON, OENEV YORK, X. Y.

CLOTHES-DRIVER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,599, dated August 14, 1860.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEE JOHNSON, of New York, in the county and Stateof New York, have invented a certain new and Improved Clothes-Drier,Intended more Especially for Drying Clothes in the Open Air; and I dohereby declarethat the following is a. full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichyFigure l represents the apparatus when ready for use. Fig. 2 representsthe same in a loosened condition. Fig. 3 represents it folded forstowage and Fig. 4 a portion of the latter on a larger scale shows theconstruction and elfect of the joints.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation by the aid of thedrawings and letters of reference marked thereon.

A, B, and C are three straight bars or rods of wood of proper length andsize. I prefer to make them as light as is consistent with strength thatthey may be the more easily ortable. A and B are hinged together by aliolt D at or near their centers, and so also are A and C, the bolt Ewhich unites the latter standing at right angles to and a little abovethat which unites A and B, at these joints I introduce washers O and Iwhich hold the rods a little distance apart as represented. The rods A,B and C are capable of turning on the bolts D and E so as to diverge asshown in Figs. 1 and 2 or to lie parallel as shown in Fig. 3 atpleasure. lVhen they are spread or opened so as to stand in the positionshown at Fig. 1 they form the outline of two triangular pyramids joinedat their apeXes.

In manufacturing my improved clothes drier I hold the rods in theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and stretch several series of cords F,G, H horizontally from one to another of the upper portions of the rodsfastening them permanently to each rod. The several articles to be driedare supported by being suspended in any well known manner to thesecords. The inclination of the rods A, B, C such that the clothesdepending when extended is from the y cord F hang at a little distancefrom those depending from G, and those depending from Gr at a littledistance from those from H, etc., so as to allow a circulation of airthrough these spaces. The form of the device at the top being entirelyopen or free from any obstructing frame work within inducesv a motion ofthe air through these spaces if a current of air is passing the de Vicein any direction. An additional cord L of proper length is passed underthe lower half of the rod A and permanently attached to the rods B and-C near their upper ends as represented. Similar cords M and N are passedunder the other rods and connected to the tops of those correspondingthereto on each side. A series of notches a, b, and c are made in theseveral rods at the points represented. lVhen the middle point in thecord L downward and inserted into one of the notches t it remainstherein holding itself in a tightly strained condition. The cords M andN may be held in a similar manner by the notches and c, and when thusheld the rods A, B, C, are rigidly confined in the position shown byFig. l. On releasing these cords L, M, N by pushing them out of theirrespectivenotches and allowing them to hang in a slack condition asshown in Fig. 2 the corresponding ends of the rods A, B, C may bereadily brought together and the whole device then assumes the formshown in Fig. 3 in which latter condition it can be stowed in a verysmall space until it is again required for use.

The cords F, Cr, II are not compressed between the rods A, B, C onclosing the latter together, because the washers O and I hold the rodsat a distance apart equal to or greater than the diameter of the saidcords as shown by Fig. 4.

A cord P is attached to one of the rods near the center and providedwith a suitable hook by which the apparatus when adjusted may be securedto any suitable fixture provided for the purpose below to prevent itfrom moving under the force of the wind.

The cords L, M, N may be set in the highest or lowest of the respectivenotches a, l), 0 according as the cords shall become stretched.

My invention is cheaper, lighter and more is seized by the hands anddrawn y durable than any other device of equal effect being arranged foraction together substan- 10 known to me. tially as specified.

Having now fully described my invention In witness whereof I havehereunto set what I claim as new therein and desire to my hand in thepresence of two subscribing 5 secure by Letters Patent iswitnesses.

In combination with the hinged frame or JOSEE JOHNSON. rods A, B, C, andsuspending cords F, G, H, Witnesses: the straining cords L, M, or N,operating THOMAS D. STETSON, to secure and release the rods, and thewhole A. SNYDER.

